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Rustyd

Deluxe Car Care LLC will take care of all your washing and cleaning needs. The sell the best, 1oz of solution to 1 Gallon of water, 1 towel to clean your entire car/truck. Done in less than an hour. Unless your **** like me and still takes you 2 to 3 hours.

FallGuy44

We'll see. Watching the video, the solution seems pretty concentrated. He says 1oz of solution will clean 2-3 cars or 25 - 30 cars per bottle. So with our trucks, obviously it will be less. I had to buy the sprayer too, that was $60. Was going to try it tomorrow but we are getting a lot of rain on friday so i'm going to wait.

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hinglemccringleberry

I never use soap. Haven't in years. I don't offroad and I wash once a week so there's no need.
My main wash job consists of pressure washing at the $1 bay with water only (NEVER USE THEIR BRUSHES!!!), synthetic chamois, quick detailer spray, and lots of soft MF towels that serve different purposes. I've never put swirls in my paint with this procedure and it's much less of a hassle than traditional soap washes.

For in between cleaning, it depends on how dirty the truck is. Usually i just dust it.

moparado

Instead of using soap at the coin op, i use the wax setting, then rinse and get on the highway for a dry.
Good enough for Winter around here.

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Ellford

Ol' detailer here...

2 buckets - one with cold water and you use this for just rinsing your sponge with so you don't track dirt into you soap bucket and back onto your truck to cause micro-scrapes (swirls).

Use Mother's California Gold wash or Meguiar's (I prefer Mother's products for lots of reasons - too many to list here).

Wet your truck; wash with a clean sponge and rinse in the rinse pail after every time you touch your vehicle.

Use a microfiber towel to dry

Apply Mother's Carnauba Wax paste with a damp microfiber cloth. Buff off with clean microfiber towel.

Between washes:

1. Rinse truck
2. Dry with microfiber towel
3. Apply Mother's Spray Wax

If you have paint imperfections (you can feel the small dimples in your paint by running your hand over your vehicle (and yes, brand new vehicles have paint imperfections)):

1. Wash truck
2. Dry with microfiber towel
3. Use a clay bar (Mother's has a clay bar "kit" which comes with 2 bars and lube)
- Tear off a SMALL piece of clay to use and keep folding it onto itself as you use it
- If you drop the SMALL piece on the ground - throw it in the garbage (this is why you use a small piece at a time).
- Use PLENTY of lube (can use car wash soap if you don't have lube)
4. Re-Wash truck
2. Dry with microfiber towel
4. Apply wax

Enjoy...

seventyeight

My truck will be dirty most of the winter. I hate it but nothing much can be done. The roads are dirty around here in the winter being they use a 50/50 mix of salt/sand - it sticks to everything. Even above freezing days if the roads are the slightest bit wet your truck is dirty. The roads will still be dirty until near Memorial Day after enough heavy rains to wash the road off properly.

I only go to town once a week. The stars need to be aligned for a day to have dry roads and stay dry for the 35 mile trip home. When that is the case I go to a self serve car wash. There are 2 in town - one is very nice.

I use the pre-soak - a good covering of it. It works very well - you can see it cutting the grime off the truck as it flows down. After a good covering of pre-soak then just the high pressure rinse and done. It comes out amazingly well.

That will only happen 3-4 times over the winter. Then in the spring is my full detail once it warms up. Being I am pretty much crippled up now it takes me many different sessions over 2-3 days to get it done. Same thing in the fall.

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